Chusovaya - The famous river

There are many rivers in my area, but one of them is very special.

It's name is Chusovaya.

When that place "Ural" was conquered by Russians in 1580 it was a main road for them.

Later, it was a main road for industrial goods, and that is the reason why the industry was developed here.

Chusovaya comes to another River - Kama which comes to Volga.

And it's mean that you can reach almost any Russian place by water.

For many centuries all the life here were concentrated around the river.

Ural mountains not the best place for terrain roads (still) and before trains the rivers was the only options.

Chusovaya is unique because it is the only river which crosses the Urals, thus we have a thousand stories about it.

It used for everything here.

Each year local theater do the outdoor performance on the river.

Something about history and events which had taken place near to the river.

It's always interesting, educational, and fun.

This year it was about Demidov, the guy who owned industry here and used a river to deliver goods to Moscow.

It was a really hard work, because Chusovaya is too shallow for heavy boats, but our industry (metal) produces only heavy goods.

But people can solve any problems. They had invented many and many tools, special devices, boats and it is a very interesting thing to learn.

If someone interested I can write a series blogpost about the process.

We love this river, almost each year we rafting along it, and usually I have a new book about history of this area, and I read it aloud for everyone who is in my boat.

And anyway local theater has more listeners than I.

Probably I need some costume and a few cheerleaders too.